Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America [Paperback]

Roger Morris (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1999

In this devastating dual portrait of the President and the First Lady, an investigative reporter reveals the untold secrets of the most ambitious yet scandalous partnership in the history of American politics.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Absent a royal family, the American people have developed a thirst for subjects for gossip from on high. In Bill and Hillary Clinton, they have them. Roger Morris charges the first family with misdeeds committed while upon the throne in Arkansas: Bill taking money from Whitewater partner James McDougal; Hilary using well-connected brokers to win fabulous returns on her investments; the governor's affairs; and their friendship with a drug-dealing bond daddy, to name a few. Those after the dirt on the Clintons will love this wheelbarrow full of it. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Morris, author of National Book Award nominee Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician (LJ 12/89), has written arguably the most damning indictment of the Clintons to date. In addition to being the author of several well-received books, Morris was a highly respected public servant, working for Dean Acheson, Lyndon Johnson, Walter Mondale, and Richard Nixon and resigning from the National Security Council over the Cambodian invasion during the Nixon administration. Bill and Hillary Clinton are viewed as emblematic of a rotten political system that has sold out the interests of its citizens for the financial support of corrupt monied interests. Arkansas was a fertile training ground in no small part because of its few wealthy corporations, including Tyson Foods, Stephens, Inc., and Wal-Mart. The image of Bill Clinton as a moderate, public-oriented leader rings hollow to Morris. Hundreds of understandably confidential interviews present a sordid tale of a governor who allegedly sold his political soul to the Arkansas power structure. The Clintons, according to Morris, handsomely profited from Whitewater at the expense of the people the governor swore to protect. The harrowing tales of cocaine-sniffing toga parties pale in comparison with Clinton's alleged ties to organized crime, the Iran-Contra debacle, and drug smuggling from Mena, Arkansas. No one should come away from this book happy; complicity in the government's breakdown includes and transcends both parties. Clinton supporters will be despondent. An instant best seller that will stir considerable discussion and should be purchased by all public libraries.?Karl Helicher, Upper Merion Township Lib., King of Prussia, Pa.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 526 pages
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing (April 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895263025
• ISBN-13: 978-0895263025
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,389,913 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The reality of the Bill Clinton, June 17, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America (Paperback)

This is an excellent read! If you are unconvinced of the corruption we have had for the last eight years, then this book will cause you to reconsider. It also goes into detail as to how Bill Clinton got into this terrible state.

Anyone who dismisses this book as unsubstanstiated is obviously partisana and also hasn't been paying attention to the news for the last eight years. An objective and reasonable person will see the truth and the truth is what is written is true and well documented. Mind you this is a close friend of Bill Clinton who wrote the book! No agenda - just truth for those who can accept it.

This book highlights the pattern of deceit, drug use and corruption. Frankly, I'd rather not be in denial but admit the obvious about this man. Hopefull the American people will never allow someone of this low calibur ever become President again.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Starts a bit slow; the latter chapters are worth the wait., September 10, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America (Hardcover)

The early chapters are devoted to the childhoods of the President and First Lady. Unless the reader has an inordinate interest in a third party's opinion of what made somebody who and what they are, these chapters are a bit slow. Some of the detail, however, is quite engaging. From about the middle of the book on, it is almost impossible to put it down. The author pulls no punches, dealing openly with allegations of cocaine use in the Governor's Mansion during the Clinton years, screaming and profane fights between the two Clintons, and a compromise on Hillary's part to live with Bill's hundreds of one-night stands in order to attain her goal of First Lady. The writer does an excellent job of explaining Hillary's commodities market caper, Whitewater, and other shady deals involving the First Couple during their Arkansas years. It you have heretofore had trouble understanding the finer pints of those events because explanations were convoluted and arcane, the writer's language will likely clear up your confusion with his straightforward, clear, and concise prose. I recommend this book to both Clinton fans and their detractors. It could easily persuade the former to rethink their position, and the latter to say "see, I TOLD you what he was!" A must read.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Morris strains to make his critique systemic in nature
, January 3, 1998

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This review is from: Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America (Hardcover)

Roger Morris has obviously done a ton of investigative work to complete this book. He threatens to be terribly profound when he hints at a systemic crisis well beyond the misdeeds of the Clintons, but he never really gets beyond his obession with making a point about the Clinton's 'lack of character' and the compromises they commit on their way to the summit of American politics. There has been so much trash talk aimed at the Clinton's for fairly tranparent partisan reasons this book just seems to be another in a litany of attacks. So the Clinton's compromised basic values in their drive for power. I don't really see much insight in that. I hate to sound like a Clinton apologist, because I can see the guy for what he is, but this book would have been for more effective if Morris went into more detail on the swamp that is American politics, campaign finance, influence buying generally and the whole compromised morass of those who achieve real power in American life. Perhaps Morris would write a follow up book on that subject ranging well beyond the infirmities of the Clinton's, drawing parallels between the culture of our nations capitol and the unseemly machinations of power in our supposedly pristine state capitols.